Tips on using the NIWA DataHub

Finding data products

The NIWA DataHub offers, depending on data category, filter options for finding data products. These can be custom 'tickbox choices' for the specific data category or one of the following filtering options.

Filtering using the 'Search' Box (available for most data categories)

Enter a search term and press 'Apply filters', this will show all data products where the search term is contained in the product title or description. 
For example: agent no of VCSN sites, parameters of interest (e.g. "temperature")

Filtering using 'Temporal Search' (available for some products)

Selecting a start AND end date press 'Apply filters' will filter products where the product data timeperiod (as displayed on the product page) is within the selected start and end date. 

Filtering using 'Location Search' (available for some products)

Click on a point in a map and press 'Apply filters', a search radius of 50 km will be used to locate all matching products. 

 

Filtering using 'Map' (available for some products)

You can change to 'Map' filter by moving above toggle, this displays a map view of locations of available products. Clicking a point will show available products on the right hand side.

Note: The 'Map' filter does not update with 'List' filter.

Note: The 'Map' filter will only show locations below a certain zoom level.

 

 

Login / Register

To access data users are required to register (Why?). At first registration or later login users will be prompted with this:

New users use their chosen email address, existing users use their email address they used for registration. Registration and login is passwordless. A registration code will be send to the email address that is entered at below prompt.

Note that DataHub will logout users after period of inactivity and requires login again. Same applies when users login from different devices.

Information requested for new registrations

For new registrations. before data can be accessed, users will be prompted to provide some further information, including account type, organisation name, organisation size, sector / type, etc.

Users can choose from 3 account types (more information): Personal, Public, Business.

 

 

Checkout

At checkout, before payment, users will be prompted for providing purpose of using the data acquired.

At data checkout, at payment, users will be prompted for address information.

After checkout

  • After checkout you will get a confirmation email (incl download links).
  • You can go to "My account" -> "My orders" to see your orders and the download links.
  • Note that files are usually provided in compressed format (zip or gzip) and requires a compression software for extraction (e.g. Winzip, 7-Zip).